THE LONE PILGRIM

Composer (attributed to): William Walker

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Tune Information

Title: THE LONE PILGRIM
Composer (attributed to): William Walker (1854)
Meter: 11.8.11.8
Incipit: 13553 55671 65321
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

The Lone Pilgrim

I came to the place where the lone pilgrim lay,
And pensively stood by the tomb,
When in a low whisper I heard something say,
How sweetly I sleep here alone!

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Notes

According to Thomas Commuck, the earliest known notater and annotater of this tune, the tune was "A tradition of the New York Indians". Later attributions to B. F. White and/or William Walker appear to relate at most to the harmonizations and textual details of the versions they used in their later tunebooks.

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The Sacred Harp #341

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